Pearls of Love (Episode 28)

You are probably screaming at the top of your voice! What’s wrong with you Dan, can’t you just let you zip up! You may also be wondering how I could possibly have left Ann, a woman I adored so much. You may even like to tag me a womanizer! And say horrible things like- "Cut his dick off!" Did I just hear someone say that? I guess everyone is right, but the truth is that, the divorce was not my decision, it was Ann’s.

It still remains a shock to me how it all went sour between Ann and me. I tried severally to convince her that we needn’t separate, but she constantly maintained that it was the only option.

If you remember, I said I was beginning to have lots of problems with Ann, since Rita resurfaced in my life, the big part of it started after went for the bank training. We were regularly fighting over issues that didn't make sense and were really unnecessary. I only had peace when I wasn’t in the house.

Soon I started seeing her as a different person from the woman I married or dated. I knew there was something on her mind, but I wasn’t sure what it was, I could only guess. I sometimes feel she was seeing someone, and even before we both relocated, we were almost living differently.

One word I may use to describe Ann now is impatience! She filed for a divorce, and that was it, we got the divorce, on grounds of irreconcilable differences. We were both allowed the custody of kids, meaning, Ann could take any of the two and I could take any also. The court allowed us to change custody of the kids from time to time, as long as we agreed. But I decided it was best for the both of them to be with their mom. Especially since they were in the boarding house.

Before the divorce, one early morning, I woke up with a start. It was the telephone ringing I wondered who could be calling that early as picked the receiver, it turned out to be Rita.

“Yes’, it was the only response I could utter.

“That’s no way to say good morning”, she teased.

I didn't know why she called, but I guess she wanted to ask how I was, since I had just left her place. Since the problems with Ann was getting out of hand, I had left the house for her and moved in with Rita. I needed some time to myself, I wasn’t just going to be able to cope with distractions, and bet you, Ann was a distraction at that time.

So when just the night I returned back home, this call came in early in the morning and it was Rita. I think the major issue with Ann was her relocation to Florida. I was forced to leave the house and slept at Rita’s place when I got tired of arguing with Ann.

So the next morning, I went back to pick some of my things and decided to stay with Rita for as long as possible. Ann was in the living room when I got home, but she didn’t as much as utter a word, neither did I. I went straight to my room and packed a few things I needed for a week as Ann came into the room.

“I won’t be around for a week’, I told her.

“Where are you going to?” she asked.

“Somewhere”, I answered not looking at her.

“Where you slept last night?”

“Maybe’, I said, moving to the door where she stood, just in my way.

“The bitch’s house, right?” She asked with a scorn.

“Maybe”, I replied and walked out.

“You’ve been sleeping with that harlot, now you want to move in with her’. She shouted behind me.

“Does it really bother you?” I asked, not looking back.

I went on down the stairs and she kept on after me, raining curses as she did. I drove the car out and headed for the kid’s school. I needed to see them.

I spent time with them, and then drove to Rita’s place where I stayed for a week. Ann was sober when I returned home.

“Can you please come back home now?’, she asked on phone two nights before I returned, I thought she was never going to call.

“Why?” I asked.

“Are we no longer married?”

“I should ask you that”, I answered.

“Dan, you can’t continue living this way”, she preached and I listened.

“See we have to think about the kids before our own selfish gains”, she continued.

“The kids are fine”, I replied.

“Please let’s talk this over” she begged.

“Okay”, I replied.

The phone went dead. I felt a wide gap between Ann and myself. It wasn’t like this between us. So many things had gone wrong. As for what was between Rita and me, I don't know how to best define it, but I know we were both fond of each other apart from the sex we enjoyed.

Well I returned home, to Ann. We sorted it out, I guess it was easier for us to sort things out because we had to because she would be leaving the country.

Somehow we couldn't talk about what existed between us. We avoided it like, you would avoid a corpse. Sometimes it was better that way between Ann and me because we may just end it up in an argument. I think we both realized that and avoided it.

So it was a cold relationship between Ann and I ever since, until she moved abroad and that was almost the end in communication between us.

The company I co-owned with Rita had had started well and at that time I was finalizing plans for my relocation abroad. Everything was working well as planned, I was focused and nothing was going to stop me from achieving my goals, not even me!

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Pearls of Love (Episode 28)

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